Doug you may be right but it may not be the only early heavy funny. Somewhere I have a photo of that car with the bodywork up I believe on a return road. Still pretty cool. Surprised in a sense running as an altered but not sure of the year it ran which may have dictated it.
Jim, would be good to see another picture. IS it my imagination or is the engine set back? Looks like 200S Americans on the back, must be about 1970.
My goodness; doors, glass, chrome molding, door handles, and fuel altered tin work. Someone had some skills.
Doug my filing system leaves much to be desired. I have some stuff on thumb drives will have to keep looking. There is a picture I believe from a side angle.
Hey Jim, you've got important stuff to do like building a Cadillac. It just appears the headers are too close to the rear tires so I wondered if the engine was set back a bunch.
Doug I know-I am working on bucks for the fenders but my back went south. Trying to set an appointment for an epidural so have a few moments to do some searching. Here is the pic I referred to. This pic may not answer your question. Cropping it does not do much either.
Thanks Jim. It appears the windshield is cut for clearance of the blower so it must be back a bunch. So just a dumb question, I wonder how they keep the windshield from cracking when the body is lifted with that big chunk missing. The body would have to twist. Yea, I know I am thinking too much.
The engine is not set back very much relative to the wheelbase and the 3/4 rear shot that started this discussion is deceptive. It appears that at worst the headers end about level with the rear of the side tin which is well forward of the slicks as seen in Jim's photo.
Doug, At first I thought that the Corvette body was somehow tied together and hinged, so that it could be lifted, but after looking at the later photo, I wonder if it was done like Bruce Larsens Chevelle. The Chevelle was apparently the first or one of the first flopper bodies ever. The 66 Chevelle body was built by taking a mold from a stock chevelle in Sutliff Chevrolets inventory.
Will this car be in Bowling Green in June at the Hot Rod Reunion? If it is will you have some T-shirts as well I would still love to have one of these bodies
What happened to the heavy metal flake? Maybe the colors and the lighting mute the flake. Very nice car.
There is no Metalic in the paint on this its all our Flaked Gelcoat under the candies, The lights and cameras donot do it justice!!
It looks like someone wrecked it and couldn’t afford to fix it and hacked the nose off of it. On the plus side it probably ran cool
It may have been an acceptable design in the day and or been an expedient way of performing a feasible repair for a car purchased to go racing. Unfortunately the design hasn't aged well from a contemporary view point. I have to wonder if the the grill area treatment being so large worked like a great air intake until that air ran into the rad and support if it had one. Then had a parallel effect to pushing a barn door down the track.
The Jalopy Journal
